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Columnist, short story author, and poet Ambrose Bierce is remembered for his veracity and his acrimonious prose style. Bierce has evidently won the superlative for causing the most havoc when it came to his writing. The bad-tempered bravado of his gazette writing and his former appalling naturalistic war fiction led to him obtaining the appellations “Bitter Bierce” and “The Devil’s Topographer.” Antagonistic derision seemed to flow through Bierce’s writing, from his raging literary smites in his…

In The Scarlet Letter, an American gothic novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hester Prynne must wear a scarlet “A” on her clothing to represent adultery, the sin in which she has committed. Her partner, Arthur Dimmesdale, remains furtive and unidentified. This engenders Dimmesdale to have a burden of guilt brought upon him. Her husband, Roger Chillingworth, who has been gone for three years, seeks revenge on Dimmesdale. In Moby Dick, another American gothic novel, there is a great deal of revenge…

In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the theme of sin and hypocrisy which is used throughout the characters of Hester Prynne and Arthur Dimmesdale to show the biggest flaw that everyone carries, sin. Sin is an unavoidable, immoral action that every individual cannot deny and in this novel specifically; judgment is the main sin that takes place within the town and is directed towards Hester. Although the sin committed that the townspeople noticed and shamed Hester for was…

Due to the Puritanical beliefs of the society 1630s, Pearl was destined to be hated before she was even born. The townspeople expect Hester to give birth to an ugly and demonic child because it is the direct product of sin. The fact that Pearl looks completely normal is a very radical idea for the Puritan society, and could be a comment on how ridiculous their beliefs were. The extreme stigma that surrounded any kind of sin at that time guaranteed that Pearl, the product of that sin, would be…

This conviction unveils her belief that if she runs away from her problems, it would only declare society’s power over her. The second imperative moment is when Roger Chillingworth informs her that the town fathers are considered to have her scarlet letter removed. Hester reacts with dismay, and is worried about losing her identity. There have been brief periods of time in my life where I have lost my identity. I have felt such shame and guilt about some of the choices I have made. I have had…

The Puritans were a strict and harsh society. Citizens were punished with public shaming if they committed a sin. The novel The Scarlet Letter is set in Boston, Massachusetts between 1642 to 1649. It shows how the Puritan society with the ignominy of the protagonist Hester for the sin she and Rev. Dimmesdale have committed. The novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne displays how the different settings affect the feelings of Hester, Dimmesdale, and of Pearl. Throughout the novel,…

As the community comes together to witness the shaming of Hester Prynne for the grievous crime of producing a child without her husband’s presence, one of the women states, “At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead”(Hawthorne 42). The extreme sentiment demonstrates none of the compassion one might expect from a people who had set-forth on a perilous journey seeking freedom from tyranny and persecution. The venom with which it is spewed, which…

I split my canvas into 4 parts, leaving the center blank to put a quote. I planned on making the top left corner represent Hazel, the top right represent Gus, the bottom left represent friends and family helping Hazel through tough times, and the bottom right represent the book that Hazel and Gus were obsessed with. I started with the background color for the top half. Which was an ombre coming from both sides from dark blue which represented sadness to yellow which represented happiness. This…

“God looks beyond our fault and sees our need” (Boyle, 52). God knows and look for the sins people have made but God sees and know what they need. I prepare the story of Carmen. I have an experience about the story of Carmen in our place. He is always drunk and shouting on the road like Carmen. He says that nobody loves him and he was Dis -Grace. When he realize he felt very shameful. Like Carmen she is always in the street shouting and an addict. Carmen also says that she is a Dis -Grace.…

The Scarlet Letter. In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, he uses symbols such as the scaffold, the scarlet letter and Pearl to create a tone of harshness to represent the Puritan society. Hawthorne…